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Here’s another “blast from the past” DJ mix. There are at least 3 tracks in this set that have become all time favorites. It was fun for me to hear this mix again and I hope you enjoy it as well:

• RT @enationfm – Every Sunday at 9 PM EST, Invisible Airwaves with Q-Burns Abstract Message. New episode this Sunday! http://bit.ly/WfEux #
• a great article about Ron Hardy & The Music Box : http://tinyurl.com/28zdjy7 (via @tommiesunshine) / Chicago house music history #
• "New" Neu! — http://bit.ly/aiGf2s (via @Awl) / related: http://bit.ly/dBbfqH #krautrock #
• RT @RaymundoNosleep: "Paul Randolph on Still Music!! Amazing music! Seek it out (when it comes out) " / agreed! new album.is excellent. #
• RT @jotawagner: "faltam 26 DIAS pro aniversario da Colors no D-Edge com Q-Burns Abstract Message!!!" / yep, São Paulo here I come … ! #
• RT @scotthardkiss: Check out my new BeatFreak EP w/ remixes by Paul Woolford, Q-Burns Abstract Message & Fort Knox Five http://tiny.cc/4tl0i #
• on the creativity blog Modyfier I talk about how I came up w/ "Chainsaw (Balearic Version)" + give u a free MP3 of it: http://bit.ly/dg3w9S #
• posted a brand new Q-Burns Abstract Message Top 20 'June Tune Explosion' chart on Juno Download; check it, stream it: http://bit.ly/cTJ7xg #
• Real-life Stalkers (see: Tarkovsky) in Chernobyl's exclusion zone: http://bit.ly/b3svll (via @ballardian @cspego @davidbmetcalfe) / wow. #
• My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Marbeya sound (3), Creatures of Habit (2) and Ben Dean (2) http://bit.ly/cu9GND #
• Many Singularity University graduates now living will never die. http://dld.bz/gS6e (via @ebertchicago) #

Below are twenty tracks that I’m liking quite a bit and playing out in my DJ sets at the moment. Click on the song title to view the artist name and hear a preview, or click the top one and let them all stream in sequence.

Yes indeed – June is here and it’s time for another edition of my Invisible Airwaves mix show. To herald the arrival of summer this mix is a bit more “Balearic” than usual, with the tempo kept low and the tracks extra spacey and dubby. Here’s the track list for Invisible Airwaves #6:

NUfrequency feat. Ben Onono – Fallen Hero (Mark E Remix) – Rebirth Records
Negghead – You (K’BONUS remix) – Wax On Records
Bing Ji Ling – Sunshine Love (Ray Mang Beaten Dub) – Lovemonk
Hardway Bros – A Diabolical Liberty – History Clock
St. Stereo – Love (Toomy Disco Remix) – In Deep Records
Ben Dean – Standard Model – Baker Street Recordings
Giano – Stella In The Starlight (Sleazy McQueen Space Coast Dub) – Alphabet Music
Densmore & Cort – Cream – Fresh Meat
Creatures Of Habit – How We Lustre – Solardisco Recordings
Marbeya Sound – Non Reciprocal (Rayko Remix) – Rare Wiri
DJ Shine – Lost In The Ether (Filtered Boogie Remix) – nice+smooth ultramedia
Return To Sender – Dutch Boyz Dance Floor (Ruffy & Tuffy remix) – Smash Hit Music
Alton Miller – Turning On – Lace Recordings
Runaway – Broken Man (Brennan Green Version) – On The Prowl
Hawke – Monday Comes And Goes (Jota Wagner Remix / Gavin’s Edit) – Eighth Dimension Records
K’bonus – Kliks (Tom Trago Cosmic Mix) – Lovemonk
The Cloud Room – Blue Monday – The Cloud Room
Arp Aubert feat. Jan Gazarra – Actress (Lawrence Remix) – Mirau
Two Lone Swordsmen – Flossie Wears Paco & Ralph – Emissions Audio Output
Negghead – Being – Wax On Records
Ghost – Postcards From The Edge – CHART

The show can be heard on these stations at these times:

Tuesday, June 8 at 12:00 noon EST on Play.FM and 11:00 PM EST on Discotheque Radio
Sunday, June 13 at 9:00 PM EST on Enation.FM
Monday, June 14 at 8:00 PM EST on Mixology Radio
Saturday, June 19 at 5:00 PM on Nugen FM
Monday, June 21 on BSP Radio

If you miss the show then the stations will be repeating it throughout the month. Play.FM will also have the show available on demand after its first airing. I’ll also be posting the mix to my Mixcloud page towards the end of the month. Enjoy!

• RT @JPBarlow: Quaint and true in its dated way. The Easy Rider trailer: http://bit.ly/cT9W4Q (via @GreatDismal) #
• my 2 hour Invisible Airwaves DJ mix for May is now up on #Soundcloud for your listening + downloading pleasure: http://bit.ly/deJ2gp #DJMix #
• freakin' beats, how do they work? – "Beat Freak (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix)" by Scott Hardkiss ? http://blip.fm/~rd2ox #
• Hawke (Gavin Hardkiss) 'Monday Comes And Goes' Rmxs is out today via Juno. Anthony Mansfield, Jota Wagner, more. Check: http://bit.ly/9b6vqO #
• PolyTune (guitar tuner) for iPhone! http://bit.ly/c5ZSso – First 25,000 copies are free (via @pimpdaddynash) / this is quite nifty … #
• a fine statement of purpose from "Leroy Stick," the man behind @BPGlobalPR – http://bit.ly/dC3fyq #
• a decade ago someone shared an MP3 of my Yma Sumac rmx on Napster mislabeled "Alex Gopher Mambo" & to this day I still see it everywhere #
• Brion Gysin: "Dream Machine" retrospective at the New Museum: http://bit.ly/9Uxgvn (via @RichardMetzger) / hoping to get up to NYC for this #
• moody late night listen: "Monday Comes And Goes (Deeper Dee'z Analog In The Fog Mix by The Sexicanz)" by Hawke ? http://blip.fm/~ril99 #
• Between ebooks and flat-screen TVs living rooms look more + more like they did in François Truffaut's film of Fahrenheit 451 (via @disquiet) #
• tonight at The Peacock Room in #Orlando : Chuck Love joins your friendly neighborhood DJs at ¡Club Queso! – http://bit.ly/ceKJy9 #housemusic #
• currently sorting through music for tonight's big ¡Club Queso! shindig at The Peacock Room with Chuck Love … psyched. #Orlando #
• RT @GayRepublicNZ: Check out this great track from Q-Burns Abstract Message Feat. Lisa Shaw ‘Shame (Hakan Lidbo Remix)' http://bit.ly/dvcCxq #
• My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Greg Stainer (2), Greyship Daviz (2) and Negghead (2) http://bit.ly/cu9GND #

Friday, June 4 (tomorrow!) Chuck Love visits ¡Club Queso! (the cheesiest club in town):

We feel the heat of the arriving summer and answer with a bit of Love. Chuck Love, that is. Towing a menagerie of sweet tunes and musical instruments Mr. Love aims to entertain the Queso crowd with his funky song-smith and electric personality. Chuck Love’s contributions to the catalogs of Om Records and his own Love Network have filled many a house DJ’s set, and his visits to central Florida have made him an Orlando favorite.

On Friday, June 4 the ¡Club Queso! conspirators plan to whisk Chuck Love down from his Minneapolis base and plop him onto the Peacock Room stage for a night of superb musical mayhem. Your friends and mine Q-Burns Abstract Message, Atnarko, and Sleazy McQueen will be on hand with supporting tunes and additional love-spreading. Love vibes, as always, will be provided by Lola B and Show Source Productions will make things sound extra lovely. We hope you’ll join us for this very special ¡Club Queso!

All of this happens Friday, June 4 at The Peacock Room located at 1321 North Mills Avenue, Orlando FL 32803. Click HERE for a map or directions. $5 cover before 11 PM, $7 cover after / 21 and up

Click HERE to RSVP via our Facebook invite.

Poster by www.marleydidit.com

The bulging eyeball of, one can maybe assume, Scott Hardkiss portends some serious “Beat Freak” action. It’s a freewheeling cut on Scott’s Technicolor Dreamer album enthusiastically giving shout-outs to folks of all shades, no matter how neon, because, when it comes down to it, we all dig freakin’ to beats (yes.).

Scott hit me up to remix “Beat Freak” and I happily obliged. There was an original version of my remix that I toiled on for 4 or 5 lonely days. Long story short, I decreed it “not freaky enough” and in a calm tantrum erased all evidence and started over from scratch. 24 hours later I had the remix you hear below:

Scott Hardkiss – Beat Freak (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) (God Within Recordings) by Q-Burns Abstract Message

I liked the implications within the synthesized vocal and visualized it as a bullhorn announcement. A sort of world music bounce is applied for a global “everybody’s in the club” feel. The beats and bass line are kept overly simple, serving as anchors for everything around them. The keyboard solo and emulated fretless bass were last minute ideas and make up my favorite section of this. Celebration time. I’m into it.

Upon completion I immediately had an idea for an alternate version of this. Thus we have the dub:

Scott Hardkiss – Beat Freak (Q-Burns Abstract Message Dub) (God Within Recordings) by Q-Burns Abstract Message

The plucky arpeggiated line from the first remix becomes the bass here (so much for the simple bass line) adding some dance floor motion. The energy is slightly increased, in general, with a few added synth parts and, at Scott’s welcome urging after he heard a rough draft, a rising field of ‘acidy’ synths in the key moments.

I’ve been playing both of these out in my sets and they seem to work really well for the floor. I rarely have tracks of my own that I enjoy playing out (I know … it’s a producer/DJ thing. It’s very silly.) so this is fun. I hope you dig it as well.

There are other cool remixes of “Beat Freak” by Paul Woolford, Fort Knox Five, and Scott Hardkiss himself. You can grab it now from Beatport, Traxsource, iTunes, and many other digital shops.

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• ‘Doctor Who’ theme recreated with just a guitar and Electro-Harmonix effect pedals: http://bit.ly/deLzof (via @RichardMetzger) / neat-o. #
• Just uploaded "Invisible Airwaves #5 – May 2010" as a Cloudcast to @mixcloud http://i.mixcloud.com/C2Ge Listen up! #
• my DJ schedule for the next 2 months , including South America dates, so far: http://bit.ly/9FkccU / hopefully more to be added soon. #
• Easy Rider is definitely in my personal film top 5. you should watch it tonight. great making-of doc on the DVD, also. R.I.P. Dennis Hopper. #
• "There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear." – Dennis Hopper (via @mediajorge) #
• My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Marbeya sound (3), Makala (3) and Woop (2) http://bit.ly/cu9GND #
• Dennis Hopper, art collector: http://bit.ly/a2cUrZ #
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• alternate universe #1 hit song :/: pining: "Don't Look Back (John Tejada Remix)" by Telepopmusik ? http://blip.fm/~qid65 #
• DJ Spooky remix of "By The Time I Get To Arizona" : http://bit.ly/clPZWS (via @lucaskrech) #
• Tres Gueros – Instead You Go w/ Neighbour, A. Mansfield, Sleazy McQueen, and D. Allison rmxs now on 12" http://lnk.ms/91s31 (via @headtunes) #
• exciting … it looks like the South America tour is coming together nicely. a few weeks in Chile and Brazil in the middle of (my) summer .. #
• The Church of the SubGenius recently set up an official Facebook page – http://bit.ly/dxqFtC (via @laughingsquid) #
• new mixes from NOICE!: Q Burns Abstract Message mix and Kevin Griffiths Tsuba Mix http://bit.ly/ae161V (via @PulseRadio) #
• "psychrock … ?" – http://huff.to/9VklLn #
• New Cloudcast "Comfort Sessions DJ Mix – February 18, 2004 " up now at http://i.mixcloud.com/C0fA Check it out now! #
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• Hawke – The Hardest Kiss (Gavin Hardkiss 10 Minute Vocal Medley Mix) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eS6xmSkaMw #
• absolutely amazing footage of the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis taken from the shuttle's booster camera – http://bit.ly/9GaBJP #